Ham (August 1956-19 January 1983), whose real name is Chang, also known as "Ham the chimp, is the first hominid to be gone in space. Ham is the acronym for the lab that prepared him for his historic flight, the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, located in New Mexico. Identified 65 chimpanzee he was named "Ham" that after the success of the mission. In 1958, the U.S. has an obsession: to compete with the Soviets, who recently put into orbit its first satellite, Sputnik, and be sent into space dog Laika. Nascent, NASA will implement the means to achieve it. For over three years, its Mercury program mobilizes hundreds of scientists and engineers, thousands of technicians and laborers. The goal is to build a rocket capable of sending a man into space and bring him back, alive on Earth.
Choosing among the best fighter pilots from the U.S. Air Force, seven astronauts undergo training drastically. Tests of skill, speed, resistance to containment, to sudden accelerations or deceleration: the tests are hellish.
same time, to conduct a rehearsal, thirty chimpanzees are subject to the same exercises. It comes to choosing the pig as fit to participate in the preparatory mission. Ham, in which Jeff has worked his trainer, eventually leaving the lot. Acronym Holloman Aerospace Medical Center where he been trained in New Mexico, Ham is a chimp in Cameroon 4 years back. It is, despite himself, into the history of astronautics. Harnessed in a capsule made of tailor that propels the rocket Redstone 2, Ham took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, January 31, 1961. Unlike Laika, who died during his mission, he comes back, he was free from his six-minute suborbital flight. This success opens, finally, the way the first U.S. manned flight, directed by Alan B. Shepard's May 5, 1961. It will also allow Americans to realize their dream: to send, eight years later, men on the Moon.
Choosing among the best fighter pilots from the U.S. Air Force, seven astronauts undergo training drastically. Tests of skill, speed, resistance to containment, to sudden accelerations or deceleration: the tests are hellish.
same time, to conduct a rehearsal, thirty chimpanzees are subject to the same exercises. It comes to choosing the pig as fit to participate in the preparatory mission. Ham, in which Jeff has worked his trainer, eventually leaving the lot. Acronym Holloman Aerospace Medical Center where he been trained in New Mexico, Ham is a chimp in Cameroon 4 years back. It is, despite himself, into the history of astronautics. Harnessed in a capsule made of tailor that propels the rocket Redstone 2, Ham took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, January 31, 1961. Unlike Laika, who died during his mission, he comes back, he was free from his six-minute suborbital flight. This success opens, finally, the way the first U.S. manned flight, directed by Alan B. Shepard's May 5, 1961. It will also allow Americans to realize their dream: to send, eight years later, men on the Moon. 
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